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comment by bonjourdemain
bonjourdemain  ·  3567 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's Okay to Call Her 'Hillary' - Peter Beinart - The Atlantic

I would argue that in our culture a woman's first name now personally defines her equivalently to how a man's last name defines him.





thenewgreen  ·  3567 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm listening....

This is when you present those arguments.

bonjourdemain  ·  3566 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A man's last name will always stay with him. A woman's last name will change with marriage. And yes, I'm aware that marriage and is a choice as well as keeping/abbreviating/hyphenating a maiden name is. But her first name will never change, regardless. In the case of Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton is the one most associated with the name "Clinton." Hillary is using her first name as a way to make herself more recognizable as an individual away from the Clinton name.

    She also uses her first name to distinguish herself as an individual from her husband, who is also a politician.

This is the point that I am trying to emphasize.